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DSI Pro arrived
Meade DSI Pro arrived from Bintel Sydney this morning. I did not expect the camera to be so large and so heavy. It means that on ETX- 105 I will be limited to about 45 degrees altitude imagining before the camera hits bottom of the scope. To my surprise (after reading about Ken’s trouble with software installation) software installed on Toshiba satellite notebook with Windows XP home edition without any great problems. Only difference from the installation sheet included with the camera was that software did not ask me to plug the camera in USB port any time during the installation and I had to reboot the computer and let Windows to search for camera drivers. I connected then to Internet and search for latest upgrades. Installation of upgrade went on without hitch.
Camera itself, filter slider is ill fitting and it lets stray light to CCD chip and it will eventually let dust in. I will have to make something to block the slots for it, as I’m not going to use it with the filters. At 20 degrees C camera got awful lot of hot pixels in comparison to my Gstar.
I will try to get some images with it, but if it will work as auto guider I think I will be happy with it
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